ISBN: 9780810937697

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Abrams Inc. New. 1994. Hardcover. 0810937697 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILAB… Mehr…

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Abrams Inc. New. 1994. Hardcover. 0810937697 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- As essential source for scholars and lovers of Redon, this marvelously illustrated biographical-critical study catalogs a traveling retrospective exhibit of the French symbolist's works. Drawing on recently released archival material, an international team of scholars led by exhibition curator Druick present evidence that Redon suffered from childhood epilepsy, which his parents attempted to conceal. Feeling unloved and rejected by his Creole mother, Redon, raised apart from his siblings, married Camille Falte, a nurturing, practical Creole from the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, a telegraph operator's daughter whom Redon, a rebel against his bourgeois class, idealized as a "daughter of the people." Redon's affiliation with Romantic artists, his friendships with Gauguin, Huysmans and Gide, and his role as mentor of Nabis Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard are explored in a major work that features many hitherto-unseen pictures from private collections among the 550 illustrations (including 160 color plates). - Publishers Weekly -- TABLE OF CONTENTS : Foreword 8 * Acknowledgments 10 * Prologue: Painful Origins 13 * Ch. I Under a Cloud, 1840-1870 25 * Ch. II Taking Wing, 1870-1878 73 * Ch. III In the Public Eye, 1879-1889 119 * In the Public Eye (3a) 120 * Odilon Redon: The Image and the Text (3b) 175 * Ch. IV Changing Directions, 1890-1900 195 * Redon and the Transformation of the Symbolist Aesthetic (4a) 196 * Redon's Spiritualism and the Rise of Mysticism (4b) 215 * Redon and the Marketplace Before 1900 (4c) 237 * Ch. V Redon in the New Century, 1900-1916 257 * Redon and the Marketplace After 1900 (5a) 258 * Redon's Artistic and Critical Position (5b) 281 * The Late Work (5c) 305 * Pt. I The Emergence of a Decorative Aesthetic 305 * Pt. II The Artist as Mythmaker 333 * Ch. VI Beneath the Surface: Redon's Methods and Materials 353 * Notes 378 * List of Lenders 432 * Notes to the Reader 433 * Documentation * Catalogue 434 * Chronologies 450 * Early Gifts 451 * Works Before 1870 to 1895 (MRC) 451 * Lifetime Exhibitions 453 * Selected Exhibitions After 1916, 455 * Writings by Redon 456 * Lifetime Bibliography 457 * Selected Bibliography After 1916 462 * Photo Credits 464 * -- with a bonus offer-- ., Abrams Inc, 1994, 6<